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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.

    So instead of getting a human to write it and AI peer reviewing it you want the most expensive per hour developers to look at stuff a human didn’t write and the other engineers can’t explain? Yeah, this is where the efficiency gains disappear.

    I read stuff from one of my Jr’s all the time and most of it is made with AI. I don’t understand most of it and neither does the Dev. He keeps saying how much he’s learned from AI but peer programming with him is the pits. I try to say stuff like, “Oops! Looks like we forgot the packages.” And then 10 secs of silence later, “So you can go to line 24 and type…”






  • I don’t know what it’s all used for but there is a government site for ID verification already: https://id.me/

    Even if Trump wasn’t President I’m not all that comfortable with the US government knowing every time I want to rub one out.

    There’s a few cryptographic methods to share this data “blindly” (signatures, zero knowledge proofs, verifiable credentials, etc.) so we’re not putting out more and more about ourselves to be taken advantage of.

    As you said the biggest problem is the lobbyists. They don’t represent the people, they represent businesses.